Week Ending Friday, March 14, 2025
{quotes}
Bad Relationships
Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
Anne Hathaway
Family of Things
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
Soulful Joy
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
Kindness + Coffee
Kindness is like coffee, it awakens your spirit and improves your day.
Mary Ellen Villarreal
Heaven and Soul
Little faith will bring your soul to Heaven, but great faith will bring Heaven to your soul.
Charles Spurgeon
{blessings}
Winter Home Blessing
If today is your inside day, do it with gratitude. The work, the interruptions, the simple beauty of the world outside your window—it’s all a blessing. This is the good work, the holy work, the joyful work of building home. Rachael Jones
Path of Goodness
There are many paths you can take, each one alluring in its own way. But the path of goodness is the only one you need. May God bless you with a rewarding journey.
Look for the Blessing
You ask “Why?” and there’s no answer from God. Just your own wild guesses that send you reeling. Look for the blessing instead, and you’ll find your peace.
Hugs and Kisses
May you be blessed with hugs and kisses from the ones you love.
Goosebumps
Today is a blessing. Go after what gives you goosebumps.
{prayers}
As it Should Be
I embrace the tears, the fears, and the not-knowing. In this prayerful moment, I let down my guard and let You in. I have hope. I have faith. All that will be unfolds as it should be.
Change for Opportunities
Change is the end result of what I’m trying to accomplish. Give me the wisdom and strength to let go of the people in my life who hold me back. Bless me with self-control to break bad habits, and grace me with favor that leads to new opportunities.
Please Provide
It’s getting harder every day to get by. Food prices, housing, health care, and insurance are rising faster than I can keep up with, and I’m falling behind. Please, God, provide.
Sense of Your Presence
When all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of Your presence, Your love, and Your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in Your protecting love and strengthening power so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for living close to You, we shall see your hand, Your purpose, Your will through all things.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Joy Waits
Dear God, Help me as I work my way out of this lethargy. Revive my spirit, expand my mind, and open my eyes to see the joy waiting for me to embrace it. Blessed are You, great and holy Father who guides us to our goodness.
{bible}
Let your eyes look directly forward and your gaze be straight before you.
Proverbs 4:25
All fish that swim the paths of the seas, Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Psalms 8:8-9
Dear Brothers and Sisters. When troubles of any kind come your way, consider them an opportunity for great joy. When your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. When it is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
James 1:2-4
Trust in the Lord.
Psalm 112:7
When you give it to them, they gather it up. When you open your hands, they are filled with good things.
Psalms 104:28
{features, stories, videos}
Feature: How Many People Believe in God?
Parable: How Far We Have Come
Feature: Reflection on Grace Rachael Jones
Holy Humor: Help Me out
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